Steve is an Inventor and author of the high-tech books "Innovate With Influence" and "Innovate With Global Influence". He has also authored the book "The Seven Stairs: Prepare for Prayer"
I traveled to Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas this week. It was my first business trip in years. The purpose of my trip was to share a current update…
There are several quotes from Gil Press' Top 10 Tech Predictions For 2020 From IDC article that I like. The first one is about edge build-out. Edge Build-Out: By 2023, over…
In a previous post I looked at the history of trust insertion technologies for enterprise storage systems. I commented that these enterprise concepts can be applied to data flowing into…
The industry is distributing corporate applications towards decentralized data. The figure below does a good job in framing the challenge of "delivering trusted data" in decentralized ecosystems (e.g., IoT sensor…
As we enter the age of data valuation we're starting to witness the rise of data marketplaces. One of the concepts I've been experimenting with is the routing of IoT…
There are many integration aspects to consider when deploying new blockchain applications onto an existing IT architecture. Many of them are listed here. One of the more intriguing challenges is…
The VMware research team's SBFT algorithm achieved 50 I/Os per second when processing four months worth of Ethereum transactions (a 10x speedup). This statement may not appear noteworthy in the…
When a storage system provides new trust features, it is not uncommon for these features to perform quite poorly. In a previous post, I looked back at the early-1990s introduction…
Last year I purchased the book Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott. Once some of blockchain's privacy and commerce kinks solve, the book posits that the technology will be positioned to…
I used the graphic above in a Data Value presentation at Dell's Field Readiness Summit several weeks ago. The presentation focused on using data to fuel business transformation. I like this…